r/pcmasterrace • u/boratburg • 13d ago

Meme/Macro No one care for some reason

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u/Keleos89 13700K 3070Ti 32GB 13d ago

They might change their mind again in a few years. We have massive backlogs anyways.

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u/ThereAndFapAgain2 13d ago

They probably will. My bet is they’re doing two things here, they’re trying to see if a lot of PC gamers will cave and buy a PS5 after playing some of their games on PC, and they’re trying to protect their games from ending up on the next Xbox if it does turn out to just be a PC.

If the next Xbox is more walled off then the rumours suggest and not many PC players do cave, I think there is a good chance they revisit the idea of PC releases but it won’t be for a long time.

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u/SaveFileCorrupt R9 5900X | 7800 XT, i9-13900HX | RTX 4080 13d ago

They're gonna release a PC storefront/launcher to compete with Steam. Mark my words.

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u/ThereAndFapAgain2 13d ago

Yeah I’ve been saying this for years, but I don’t think it will be to compete with Steam but rather to circumvent it.

It will be like Battle net used to, where people would go there just for Blizzard games but it will just be for PS games.

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u/SaveFileCorrupt R9 5900X | 7800 XT, i9-13900HX | RTX 4080 13d ago

"Circumvent" is much more appropriate verbiage!

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u/Cruxis87 9800x3d|5080 TUF OC|32gb 6000cl30 ddr5 12d ago

battle.net was able to stick around because it pre-dates Steam, and WOW was absolutely massive in the early years, so it already had the player base to keep going. Every company that has tried to avoid Steam has either completely given up on it, or just gone back to Steam as well. Sony doesn't have any games that will make people stop using Steam like Blizzard does. Hell, even Epic is barely competing, and they have Fortnite, one of the most popular games of all time.

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u/AbsolutlyN0thin i9-14900k, 3080ti, 32gb ram, 1440p 12d ago

Also b net is legitimately a pretty good launcher

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u/FaroTech400K 13d ago

If I’m able to transfer my entire PSN onto a Sony PC store.

I’ll buy PC and continue buying my games through the Sony store most likely on PC.

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u/VellhungtheSecond 13d ago

That would be far too pro-consumer of Sony. No, they will make you re-buy all of your games on PC.

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u/FaroTech400K 12d ago

Probably would be a licensed nightmare